Malware infected Seagate NAS hard drives, crazy mining nearly 510,000 yuan-Seagate-IT information

Malicious program variants of Mal/Miner-C (aka PhotoMiner) are infected network Seagate Central NAS device, and then use the infected hard drive to infect connect computers to dig Monero digital currency.

Mal/Miner-C Seagate NAS hard drive design flaw into it to public data folders. Seagate NAS hard disk allows the user from accessing the local network, if the administrator allows remote access users can access from the Internet.

NAS hard disk there is a public folder, allows any user to access, including anonymous non-logged in users, it cannot be deleted. Miner-C copy themselves to the Seagate NAS hard drive I could find on the Internet of public folders, disguised as a standard Windows folder icon.

Researchers found the Seagate NAS hard drive can be accessed from the Internet 70% infected with Miner-C, it has infected mining equipment worth US $ 76,000 (about 507,000) Monero digital currency.

恶意程序感染希捷NAS硬盘，疯狂挖矿近51万元 - 希捷 - IT资讯

恶意程序变种Mal/Miner-C (aka PhotoMiner)正在感染联网的Seagate Central NAS设备，然后利用被感染的硬盘感染连接的电脑去挖Monero数字货币。

Mal/Miner-C利用了希捷NAS硬盘的设计缺陷将其置入到公共数据文件夹。希捷NAS硬盘允许用户从本地网络访问，如果管理员允许远程访问用户也可以从互联网上访问。

NAS硬盘有一个公共文件夹，允许任何用户访问，其中包括匿名非登录用户，它无法被删除。Miner-C将自己拷贝到互联网上能找到的希捷NAS硬盘的公共文件夹，伪装成标准的Windows文件夹图标。

研究人员发现能从互联网访问的希捷NAS硬盘中有70%感染了Miner-C，它至今利用被感染的设备挖掘了价值7.6万美元（约合人民币50.7万元）的Monero数字货币。